Years ago I worked at this place on the second level, I got on the elevator as I was carrying some Krispy Kreme donuts for the team. A guy got on the elevator, and says to me I'm going to follow you to get one of these donuts.

He noticed the elevator is way too slow for going up one level so he goes "Man, did they buy this as a used elevator?". I replied, "I didn't know they even have used elevators."

how can an elevator be a "used" one.. but the stupid thing was so slow I swear I could run upstairs in that much time.

You need to have worked or interacted with "Lala companies" to visualize this.

One could take the elevator car, motor, weights or whatever is working from a condemned building and use in a new one. Now, i have not seen an elevator being reused, but a couple of examples.

1. Tata Steel put a full page ad about its "State of the art Blast Furnace G" going operational in 90s. I came to know later on, it was actually a decommissioned blast furnace picked up from Brazil.

2. Jindals were reputed to buy only second hand stuff. Long time back , my Dalal ex employer was trying to sell them a stainless steel mill. After long scouring, when they could not find any second hand stuff, Jindals reluctantly agreed to go for a new one. The probable sub contractors were surprised to hear when we mentioned 'it is for Jindal' saying "Are they really going for First hand stuff". Ultimately the deal never went through, after they got a bargain where they were the second highest bidder and the highest bidder backed off. OP Jindal was reputed to go searching for motors in Ship building yards.

Such things vastly reduce the initial cost.

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This is quite a game, politics. There are no permanent enemies, and no permanent friends,only permanent interests. - Some Firang

An American customer phoned up angry over nude pictures of men he found on a refurbished (second hand) computer bought by him from Dell.

We looked through his service records and found his son already had us assist him (the son) in formatting and reinstalling windows on the computer. This was over a decade ago and at that time, there was only the C: drive on the hard disk without any other partitions.

The son was sixteen years old or so. We know this because the customer mentioned it to us.

Few years ago we were discussing black friday deals on some office stationary deals.. I mentioned how I saw some interesting deals in Meijer (I said maa-yer) .. one desi guy goes I saw that deal too but it was in a store called major ..

We all looked at each other and said whatever.. to this day we will crack up on Meijer v/s Major

Few years ago we were discussing black friday deals on some office stationary deals.. I mentioned how I saw some interesting deals in Meijer (I said maa-yer) .. one desi guy goes I saw that deal too but it was in a store called major ..

We all looked at each other and said whatever.. to this day we will crack up on Meijer v/s Major

Oh ya, even we have a lot of jokes on "j". A lot of them actually pronounce J as in jam when saying Jalapenos or Mojitos or even Alejandra.